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Not helping your case here. They're like little cabbages with added slime!
Or concentrated cabbage. I can handle cabbage in small doses, or in certain things (certain dumplings, for one), but brussell sprouts literally make me gag - as in my throat closes up like someone is shoving a finger down my throat. Broccoli does the same thing, even in tiny quantities.
Weirdest vegatable I like? Fiddleheads. But they need to be lightly sauteed or blanched. If overcooked, they get slimier than okra.
Mmmm, fresh tomatoes... t /Homer
Mmmm, fresh tomatoes...
Man, the first time I had heirloom tomatoes, I thought I'd gone to heaven. Soooo good. Pricey, but often worth it.
I have to be careful with pasta sauce these days...something that's in a lot of it tends to upset my stomach. Probably basil. Or maybe it's just really acidic.
whether Italian Beef's primarily a Chicago-area thing
It is. I haven't been able to find a decent one around here, unfortunately. We're only 6 hours away by car, you'd think someone would have brought the recipe over.
I love brussels sprouts, lima beans, spinach, asparagus, all of it. Properly cooked (by which I mean barely), of course. Tomatoes must be raw, and preferably small and tart.
Gus, onions - yes, definitely. Raw, cooked, whatever way possible.
Raw tomatoes? I can't even smell them. If I absolutely have to cut them, I spend the next ten minutes trying to scrub the smell off my hands. There's no other food to which I respond so strongly, not even remotely. I'll try anything (kosher, granted). The one thing I know I can't even taste is a raw tomato.
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O, Buffista Chef, do not leave out the beer.
Huh. That's weird. It seems to me that raw tomatoes don't have much of a smell.
Was there perhaps some raw-tomatoe-induced trauma in your childhood?
I think it's a fairly pleasant smell. Maybe not an overripe one.
Was there perhaps some raw-tomatoe-induced trauma in your childhood?
According to my mom, there wasn't any, and I have never ever been willing to eat the thing, even when I had no idea what was in my food. There are a few members of my mom's family who dislike raw tomatoes, but only the one cousin who is at the level that I am. He's the only one who truly understands.
There are all sorts of vegetables that I didn't get to taste until after I moved out of my parents' place. Broccoli was a revelation, as well as spinach.